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Fun fact: The US did have competitive currencies for a bit, during the Antebellum and Civil War period. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jshambau/Papers/AntebellumExc

by shanac 13y ago

Fun fact: The US did have competitive currencies for a bit, during the Antebellum and Civil War period. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jshambau/Papers/AntebellumExchRtsJCS-5-2005.pdf http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jshambau/Papers/AntebellumExchRtsJ... There were a lot of bank busts and currency scares.

interstitial 13y ago
Bring up historic facts in a bitcoin discussion is useless. John Law is always a hero for awhile.